Former President George H.W. Bush has expressed dismay and anger at attacks on his son, President Bush, at the funeral for Coretta Scott King. "In terms of the political shots at the president who was sitting there with his wife, I didn't like it and I thought it was kind of ugly frankly," the former president said in an exclusive radio interview with CBS News White House correspondent Peter Maer. "Anybody that shoots at the president of the United States at a funeral, I just didn't appreciate that," Mr. Bush added. Former President Carter and the Rev. Joseph Lowery criticized the president during remarks they made at the King funeral in Atlanta. The Rev. Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., drew a roaring standing ovation when he said: "For war, billions more, but no more for the poor" a takeoff on a line from a Stevie Wonder song. The comment drew head shakes from Mr. Bush and his father as theysat behind the pulpit... http://www.cbsnews.com

Two former Bank of China managers and their wives have pleaded not guilty to charges in the US of stealing $485m (£272m) and attempted money laundering. Xu Chaofan, Xu Guojun and their wives were charged in Las Vegas with 15 counts, including racketeering and fraud, the US Justice Department said. The two men tried to launder the Bank of China's money through Hong Kong, Canada and the US, the department said. The alleged scam, which ran from the early 1990s, was uncovered in 2004. If convicted of all charges, they each face a maximum of 70 years in jail and a $1.5m fine. Authorities in the US said the fraud scheme also involved the brother-in-law of one of the bankers, Kuang Wa Po, who is currently described as a fugitive. A sixth man, Yu Zhendong, was detained but later sent back to China to face racketeering charges after agreeing to cooperate with the investigation. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4703026.stm

More than five years ago, Rod Spraggins made a sensational charge at a candidate forum, publicly accusing a political opponent of murder with nothing to back up the allegation except, it turns out, a vision.Now police say Spraggins was right.Barry Waites, Spraggins' opponent in the 2000 race for Lanett City Council, was arrested this week on murder charges in the 1998 slaying of his wife, who was found dead in their split-level home in this sleepy town of 8,000 along the Georgia line. In 2000, Spraggins, a bail bondsman, stunned a crowd of 100 when he accused Waites of killing his wife and dared the man to sue him for slander if he was wrong. Waites was not at the forum, never responded publicly to the accusation and never sued.In an otherworldly turn to the saga Friday, Spraggins disclosed that he never had any evidence to make the accusation and that it was based entirely on the victim's appearing to him in a series of dreams....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11277648/from/RSS/

Bruce Jackson walked into court Friday with a swagger, 15 inches taller and nearly 100 pounds heavier than the 45-pound teenager found foraging through a trash can for food less than two and a half years ago. With anger in his still high-pitched voice, the 21-year-old took the stand to confront the woman he and his three adoptive brothers say went for years denying them not just food, but the chance to grow up like normal kids. “You were mean to me for my whole life,” Jackson told his adoptive mother, Vanessa Jackson, before she was sentenced to seven years in prison for child endangerment. “You took my childhood. I’m so disappointed I will never get that back.” It was the first time Bruce Jackson and his younger brothers had appeared in public since their ordeal became national news in October 2003. All four are thin, but nothing like the gaunt figures investigators found after a neighbor spotted Bruce rummaging through the garbage. ...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11280990/from/RSS/

An Italian judge has dismissed an atheist's petition that a small-town priest should stand trial for asserting that Jesus Christ existed, both sides said on Friday. Luigi Cascioli, a 72-year-old retired agronomist, had accused the Rev. Enrico Righi of violating two laws with the assertion, which he called a deceptive fable propagated by the Roman Catholic Church. "The Rev. Righi is very satisfied and moved," Righi's attorney, Severo Bruno, said. "He is an old, small-town parish priest who never would have thought he'd be in the spotlight for something like this." Cascioli, a former schoolmate of Righi's, said he had not expected the case to succeed in overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Italy. "This is not surprising but it doesn't mean it all ends here," he said, adding that he's considering taking the case to the European Court of Human Rights. "This is an important case and it deserves to go ahead," he said. ...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1603218&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

At least eight Afghan soldiers have been killed and several wounded by two roadside bombs in Kunar province, according to officials. Two soldiers were killed by the first blast and a second device went off as troops rushed to the scene. "The situation is very bad. We've come under attack throughout the night," regional deputy police chief Mohammed Hasan told the Associated Press. The mountainous Kunar province lies on the eastern border with Pakistan. US forces targeted insurgents in Kunar last year and 16 American soldiers died in June when their helicopter was shot down over the province. Kunar is a stronghold of renegade former prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whose followers are believed to be working with Taleban and al-Qaeda militants. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4699616.stm